Recover a Tree From Preorder Traversal

Understand how to reconstruct a binary tree from its preorder depth-first traversal string representation. Learn to interpret node depths, handle left children, and rebuild the original tree structure accurately using C++.

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We perform a preorder depth-first traversal on a binary tree starting from its root.

For each node, we first write D dashes, where D is the depth of the node in the tree, followed by the node’s integer value.
The root node has depth 0.
If a node is at depth D, its children (if any) will appear at depth D + 1.
If a node has only one child, it will always be the left child.

You are given the string representation of this traversal. Your task is to reconstruct the original binary tree and return its root. ...